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Nadia N. Sawicki

  • Bioethics

    Birth Plans as Advance Directives

    By Nadia N. Sawicki There is growing public recognition that women’s autonomy rights during labor and delivery are being routinely violated. Though such violations rarely rise to the level of egregious obstetric violence I described…

    Birth Plans as Advance Directives

  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Obstetric Battery

    By Nadia N. Sawicki In 2013, Kimberly Turbin came to Providence Tarzana Medical Center for a momentous occasion – the birth of her first child. In the delivery room, she was surrounded by supportive family members.…

    Obstetric Battery

  • Announcements

    Hiring Announcement: Loyola University Chicago Beazley Institute for Health Law

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Loyola University Chicago School of Law is pleased to invite applications for a full-time tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor with expertise in health law, beginning in fall 2016. We…

    Hiring Announcement: Loyola University Chicago Beazley Institute for Health Law

  • Conscience

    On Agency Accommodations and Least Restrictive Alternatives

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Did HHS shoot itself in the foot by providing an accommodation to religious non-profits? In holding that the contraceptive mandate imposed by HHS on Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood was not the…

    On Agency Accommodations and Least Restrictive Alternatives

  • First Amendment

    Sincerity and Religious Belief in Hobby Lobby

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Courts evaluating First Amendment and RFRA claims have long held that they are in no position to evaluate the validity, centrality, or reasonableness of a claimant’s sincere religious beliefs. And while there…

    Sincerity and Religious Belief in Hobby Lobby

  • Clinical Research

    “That’s a Lot of Marijuana”

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Earlier this month, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued notice that it would be increasing the 2014 production quota for marijuana from 21 kilograms to 650 kilograms – an almost 3000% increase.…

    “That’s a Lot of Marijuana”

  • Patient Care

    How Medicine Learns About the Law

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Many medical providers learn about the law the way kids learn about sex – whispers with friends, internet message boards, and media depictions of the most dramatic and unrealistic kind. And while…

    How Medicine Learns About the Law

  • Bioethics

    “Sanitizing” Lethal Injection

    By Nadia N. Sawicki Oklahoma’s botched execution of Clayton Lockett has brought increased attention to an issue that I have been concerned with for years – the increased “medicalization” of legally sanctioned executions, and, in particular,…

    “Sanitizing” Lethal Injection

  • Bioethics

    Media Matters: Fetal Abnormalities in the Munoz Case

    By Nadia N. Sawicki The tragic case of Marlise Munoz is finally at an end, now that John Peter Smith Hospital has, pursuant to an order by Judge R. H. Wallace, Jr., taken Ms. Munoz off…

    Media Matters: Fetal Abnormalities in the Munoz Case